CNAME Record

Setting up a CNAME record for any of the domain addresses or subdomains that you've got in the hosting account allows you to direct it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain address will lose all its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the Internet domain it is being redirected to. In this light, you can't set up a CNAME record to forward your domain to a third-party provider and maintain a functional e-mail service with the first hosting company. It is also important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number as it's frequently confused with the A record of the domain address being forwarded. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain which you own through one provider to the servers of some other company in case you have set up a site with the latter. By doing this, the Internet site will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

You can easily set up CNAME records provided you have a Linux cloud website hosting from our company. We are going to provide you with an easy-to-use Control Panel where you can observe all DNS records for the domains and subdomains that are hosted inside the account. Setting up a CNAME record requires a number of simple steps - select the domain/subdomain, choose CNAME as the type, type in the hostname you are redirecting to, after that just click the Save button. The process is as basic as that and the new record is going to be active almost right away. In this way, you're going to have more control over your domain names and subdomains and over the content they open, you can create a private URL for company e-mails, and much more. If you feel unsure about how to set up a new record or you have never done such a task, we have a short video tutorial where you can see the whole process first-hand. If you decide to change or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll require literally simply a click to do it.